Norman Vincent Peale’s widow Ruth, 101
Posted: Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 5:52 pmRuth Stafford Peale, who with her late husband, Norman Vincent Peale, co-founded the global inspirational organization Guideposts, died Wednesday. She was 101.
She died at her home in Pawling, N.Y., about 70 miles north of New York City, Guideposts spokeswoman Kelly Mangold said.
Norman Vincent Peale, one of the 20th century’s foremost preachers and motivational speakers, authored “The Power of Positive Thinking”… Peale, the longtime pastor of Manhattan’s Marble Collegiate Church, part of the Reformed Church in America, died in 1993.
The couple founded the Guideposts organization in 1945, along with the magazine by that name, which is still a leading publication with an annual readership of about 8 million. … Read full obituary
